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Old 11-14-2008, 09:43 AM   #35
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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel View Post
yes, that is a good point ; but i have to wonder whether they weren't just saying that to cover all their bases, so to speak ; after all, to my knowledge, the OEB standard (although similar to epub in structure) could *only* be used as a working format (i could be wrong, but i don't know of any device / application which can "read" OEB directly).
No, I don't know of any device which could directly read OEB files either. It's a very "impractical" format for reading, however, since an OEB book is a whole folder-full of files, not just one single file! I believe you're right in saying that it was only ever intended as a working format from which to create reading formats.

OEB format is MobiPocket Creator's "native" format - the "GUI" aspect of the tool is basically an editor for the ".opf" file which stores all the metadata required to build a MobiPocket book from OEB.
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